Several works of the Belarusian composers will be performed at the 3rd Yuri Bashmet International Festival, artistic director of the festival Rostislav Krimer told a press conference on October 6.

Composition Pagan Dance by Vyacheslav Kuznetsov will be performed on October 7 at the opening of the music festival for the first time. It was composed specially for this event. On this day, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Belarus will be conducted by the maestro on the stage of Belarus State Philharmonic. The festival will gather renowned musicians, including Natalia Gutman (violoncello), Viktor Tretyakov (violin), Rostislav Krimer (piano). Yury Bashmet`s Moscow Soloists chamber orchestra, Grammy 2008 award winner, will give a performance, too.

On October 8, Moscow Soloists, Igor Butman and his band as well as Bravo music band will gather for the programme Bravo – classical music. An evening dedicated to David Oistrakh, Soviet violin virtuoso, will be held on October 9. Two days later, young musicians Ksenia Bashmet (piano, Russia), Alexei Ogrinchuk (oboe, the Netherlands), Artem Shishkov (violin, Belarus) and other laureates of various international competitions will performe at Belarusian State Philharmonic. The orchestra will be conducted by famous Italian conductor Claudio Vandelli. Belarusian musicians Vlada Berezhnaya and Artem Shishkov will have an opportunity to play the famous Stradivari violins that will be specially brought to Minsk.